In an email sent out by the National Republican Senatorial Committee Friday, McConnell pledged to triple donors’ gifts, up to $32,000.

“A Republican majority in the Senate begins with your support today,” he wrote. “Securing a victory for Gabriel Gomez in the Massachusetts Senate special election on June 25th is crucial to taking back the Senate and removing [Senate Majority Leader] Harry Reid from power.”

The national Republican Party is not a popular force in Massachusetts. And the Gomez campaign has tepidly welcomed McConnell’s support in a public statement.

Democrats and their allies, meanwhile, have used the email to suggest Gomez would be just another vote for a conservative agenda in Washington.